Probably the best deal if you're looking for 100GB or 1TB of cloud storage.

"We've lowered the price of our monthly storage plans to $1.99 for 100GB (previously $4.99), [and] $9.99 for 1TB (previously $49.99)," the company said in a blog post.

When Google introduced Drive two years ago, it offered 5GB for free, 25GB for $2.49 per month, 100GB for $4.99 per month, and 1TB for $49.99 per month. Google boosted the free tier to 15GB last year, and now users can rent much more than a terabyte. 10TB costs $99.99 per month, 20TB costs $199.99 per month, and 30TB costs $299.99 per month.

Google's prices for 100GB and 1TB are impressive. Dropbox charges $9.99 per month or $99 per year for 100GB and $49.99 per month or $499 per year for 500GB. Dropbox for Business must be purchased for at least five users to get more than 500GB.

Box personal accounts provide 10GB for free or 100GB for $10 monthly. Microsoft's OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive) offers 7GB for free. An extra 50GB on OneDrive costs $4.49 per month or $25 per year; 100GB costs $7.49 per month or $50 per year; and 200GB costs $11.49 per month or $100 per year.

Google's offer doesn't include discounts for full-year purchases, but the monthly prices are low enough that Google is still cheaper than its major competitors.

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:/ I've been thinking of Amazon Glacier for long-term storage of some media that I don't want to go through the process of re-ripping and encoding if my original (rips) ever get screwed. Right now Glacier would be less expensive but if the $99 is really for 10TB and up then maybe Drive would be the better way.

Of course with Amazon I have the option of sending them some drives with the data to put into Glacier. With Drive it would be a looooong upload process.

This is the same $/GB as glacier for storage but glacier cost WAY more if you actually need to retrieve something. (I think the numbers from the slashdot story discussion yesterday was $200/month for 20TB but $2,400 to download).

This pricing means Amazon is going to have to lower the cost for glacier retrievals significantly or they'll lose everyone with decent upload bandwidth.